Matthew Brake, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Rice University, has been promoted to associate professor with tenure, effective July 1. He is among six faculty members in the George R. Brown School of Engineering to earn a promotion.
Brake earned his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, all in MECH, in 2002, 2004 and 2007, respectively. He worked at the Sandia National Laboratories for nine years before joining the Rice faculty in 2016. He is director of the Tribomechadynamics Lab at Rice, and since 2019 has been a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. His research areas include structural and nonlinear dynamics, contact mechanics, impact mechanics, nonlinear mechanics, fatigue, failure, tribology, numerical methods and uncertainty quantification.